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The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

From Richard M. Eaton's Cundill Prize-Nominated
India in the Persianate Age

By Richard M. Eaton | October 14, 2020

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

From Rashid Khalidi's Cundill Prize-Nominated
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By Rashid Khalidi | October 14, 2020

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

From Roderick Beaton Greece's Cundill-Prize Nominated Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Tacky’s Revolt

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

From Paul Lay's Cundill-Prize Nominated Providence Lost

By Paul Lay | October 14, 2020

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Unworthy Republic

By Claudio Saunt | October 14, 2020

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On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

By Julius Margolin | October 13, 2020

Americans Abroad in Literature: A Passport to Reading

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 13, 2020

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's <em>Nightwood</em>

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

Introducing Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | October 13, 2020

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

What We've Gotten Wrong About the Oceans

This Week on Time to Eat the Dogs

By Time to Eat the Dogs | October 13, 2020

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 12, 2020

The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

By Corinne Segal | October 9, 2020

Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

Personal Space: Maggie Smith on Her Shift in Artistic Practice

The Author of Keep Moving Talks to Sari Botton

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 9, 2020

Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016

Scenes from a Yazidi Refugee Camp, Circa 2016

It is a vision of hell."">Christina Lamb: "Everything seems to stop and spin.
It is a vision of hell."

By Christina Lamb | October 9, 2020

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

About Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

By Sarah Booker | October 9, 2020

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